Amidst the photos accompanying the many articles on the EU’s “Brexit Report” published yesterday, there was one which caught my eye (see here). It’s from a billboard at the NI/Eire border, saying: “Respect the Remain Vote” – but why the heck should we? In the 20 months since we won the EU referendum, when have the Remainers ever ‘respected’ the Leave vote?
Yesterday’s EU ‘document’ presented by M Barnier (here is a good overview) is simply the last piece of evidence that the unholy alliance of Brussels’ EUrocrats and our wonderful British Remainiacs have no intention at all to ‘respect’ the Leave vote, no respect for 17.4 million British voters.
There is an unholy alliance of Big Business and Labour, of former PMs (take a bow, John Major and Tony B) showing their allegiance to Brussels – but not to our Country which the governed when PMs! – by conferring with Juncker and Barnier or pontificating in the House of Lords for a second referendum. That is on top of the continuous drumbeat of the BBC, the ‘Ministry for Remain’ telling viewers since June 24th 2016 that Brexit was the biggest error ever we voters committed, and that it is only right and proper that we were punished for it – by allowing the EU to keep us under their heel, subject to the ECJ, subject to all EU Directives but without having a say, subject to paying ‘transition fees’ , subject to continuing EU Immigration, not allowed to make our own laws …
The Remainiacs and Brussels want to show the rest of the EU that demanding Freedom, voting for Freedom, must and will be punished by turning us into a vassal state.
I talked about these negotiations being worse than the ‘Peace Talks’ in Versailles after the end of WWI (see here) – I was wrong. This EU Document, if accepted by May and our government, would turn our country into a 21st century example of Vichy France. Reading this:
“Brussels has demanded that EU customs officers are allowed to operate in the UK in what would be an unprecedented arrangement for a sovereign country.” (Daily Telegraph)
made my blood boil! This is what the EU demands – this is what the Remainiacs from former PMs down to “Lords” like Heseltine and MPs like Ms Soubry and Morgan want!This is what our elected Cabinet Ministers playing for ‘Remain’ want. This is what the BBC wants. This is what our Whitehall Mandarins have been working for so diligently ever since we joined the EU.
All those Project Fear Mk I and Mk II ‘predictions’, that Government pamphlet sent out by the Cameron government before the vote, the leaks, the underhand blocking of proper negotiations in David Davis’ Ministry, the secret collaboration with and in Brussels – they all are and were handled by Whitehall Mandarins who want us to remain, who disdain us plebs, and who have shown a dereliction of duty by advising the government in their biased support for the EU that is unprecedented.
Yes, there is an ‘enemy within’, and that enemy is represented in Ms May’s cabinet. Those who are colluding with and working for the EU which the majority of our population has rejected are enemies of the people, never mind that they deem themselves to ‘know better’ because they are ‘The Establishment’.
While some commentators are now waking up to the fact that we do indeed have a fight on our hands (see here), we may well ask ‘where were you in the last 20 months?’. Nowhere to be seen because these same commentators, part of the Westminster Bubble, preferred to remain inside with the remainer ‘friends’: standing up for Leave would have meant no more invitations to those champagne receptions.
But what should be and should have been of far more concern is that the Remain Camp has been undermining our political tradition for these past 20 months, aided and abetted by those who not only ought to know better but who have profited from our democratic tradition when they were elected. Allister Heath’s exemplary piece in the Telegraph is a must-read. I quote:
“Britain, the country that used to boast that it was so democratic that no Parliament could possibly bind its successors, is going down the same disastrous road [of judicial activism]. In 1997, when Tony Blair crushed the hapless Sir John Major, the 30.7 per cent who voted Tory immediately accepted the result, just as Labour voters accepted Neil Kinnock’s failure in 1992. In the 1975 referendum, eurosceptics accepted their defeat with good grace. Yet today, more than 18 months after the 2016 vote, the political discourse is dominated by hard-core Remainers who have refused to accept the outcome and are determined to thwart it at any cost. Partly as a result of the Government’s staggering incompetence, and the absence of any large-scale, independent pro-Brexit campaign, they are now starting to look as if they may succeed.”
That, dear friends, puts part of the blame squarely on us! Where indeed were we, where was UKIP? Navel-gazing and fighting like ferrets in a sack, that’s where. And please do let us place some of the blame for that on the leader who indeed worked his socks off to win the Leave vote but who washed his hands of us and of the 17.4 million voters immediately afterwards! We all remember what happened next, unto the EGM of Feb 17th.
Allister Heath writes:
“The Brexiteers have, in the main, failed to see this coming; many have performed pathetically. They naively thought they had won, that this was an ordinary, old-fashioned democratic joust, and entrusted the establishment with pursuing a radically anti-establishment policy.”
Indeed! Now we observe many little anti-Brexit campaigns sprouting up here and there, with a handful of little rallies here and there, uncoordinated and not well attended. That is another aspect of the ‘Enemy within’ winning: splintering the Leave constituency, or ‘divide ut impera’ – divide in order to rule. And we in UKIP allowed this happen. Now Gerard Batten has published a statement (here) but I am not holding my breath to find an article by him in the MSM.
The Establishment has nearly destroyed UKIP, with our collaboration, wittingly or not. They will destroy the Leave vote because we have been weakened – let’s face up to that unpalatable fact. We have one way, and one way only, to stand up to the enemy within and to the enemy at the gates: recognise that we, the grassroots, are in the fight of our lives and organise accordingly. If we don’t the Barniers, Verhofstadts, Blairs and Heseltines will have won.
The agreement between Germany and Vichy France was made during a time of war. The EU and Remaniacs however, don’t have any such excuse.
Exactly!
The picture shows Hitler and his henchmen in military uniform, talking to Pétain after France’s defeat. At gunpoint. Pétain is agreeing for his country to be governed by Germany.
This is essentially what May’s proposed SECURITY TREATY with the EU will mean for Britain. She will become our General Pétain.
“Security” means military, police, prisons, criminal law. The means of physical enforcement that a STATE uses to force citizens to do things against their will.
At gunpoint.
This SECURITY TREATY, will include not only measures for a military defence union – which has been debated in the media, though not enough.
It also includes the CONTINUATION OF THE EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT, indefinitely. And our membership of EUROPOL. This has not been debated AT ALL. Not even Jacob Rees-Mogg is talking about it. Nor Nigel. Nor Alistair Heath. Nor the Telegraph, nor the Mail, nor the Express. Not a peep from anyone.
The EAW gives ANY “judicial authority” in Europe the arbitrary power to have ANYBODY in Britain ARRESTED AND FORCIBLY TRANSPORTED TO JAIL ABROAD, on NO EVIDENCE, so any trumped-up charge can be used. What a gift for Brussels! They will then hold the whip handle, and, boy, will they ever wield it!
This is what UKIP needs to be shouting from the rooftops.
We must stop May’s Security Treaty at all costs.
Otherwise it will be all over for Britain’s independence, bar the shouting… Or, more likely, bar the shooting.
“If UKIP is destroyed and the referendum vote is ignored or overturned I believe we will have the biggest political crisis that we will have seen in our lifetimes….”
“Firstly “if UKIP is destroyed”, as it almost was very recently, I am not sure there would have been much of a murmur.
The wider supporters would have probably shrugged and said it would have been better were Nigel Farage in charge.”
(Chris- on March 1, 2018 at 4:28 pm)
Fond hope. Nigel himself said, before the EGM, that if we ditched Bolton that would be the end of UKIP. So in his view, UKIP already IS destroyed.
UKIP will have to learn to live without him. He is now clearly pursuing another agenda – not sure what it is.
I agree with your point Torquil, UKIP needs to stand on its own feet without Nigel Farage’s oversight.
When I said “wider supporters” I am referring to the many comments elsewhere in Newspapers and other sites
where people leaning towards Euro-scepticism still view UKIP as Nigel Farage.
That persists as a legacy perception.
They also say that were he in charge it would work better.
Your main comment on the Security Treaty not being discussed widely in the media is disturbing.
Gerard Batten goes where Nigel fears to tread.
This article should have come with an advisory note at the commencement paragraph.
“Pour a good splosh of whiskey into a heavy gauge glass, then continue reading.”
Yesterday I came across a “news item / free political broadcast / skewed propaganda” article about what John Major (the grey man) thinks. How fxxxxxg galling.
Fortunately Viv sums up with greater accuracy the mess of suppressed-rage-feeling I awoke with this morning and adds a call to arms as well.
Good article. Sad times.
Thanks
Chris, it is alleged that when John Major’s government signed the Maastricht Treaty his Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, said: “Now we have signed it we had better read it.” If that is true it tells you all you need to know about the Grey Man.
Thanks Lidian, that’s a good quote !
Correction, I believe that that comment was made by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Ken Clarke.
Cam Poulter, I stand corrected; but it makes no difference to the allegation that the document was signed before it was read and inwardly digested by all our MPs – something the Grey Man should have insisted on.
Come to think of it regarding the latest White Paper published by Mrs May’s government where it has been alleged that she agreed it’s contents with Mrs Merkle before presenting it to Parliament; and this with very short notice so that MPs were prevented from reading and inwardly digesting it seems to be no different from John Major’s attitude. The only surprise is that the White Paper was not written in German.
Lidian Revis
Thank you for your reply, you are, of course, correct in stating that the person who uttered that statement was immaterial, it was the fact that is was stated at all that was so disgraceful.
Excellent timely rallying cry Viv. We must get out there post-haste to take on the Remainers. Out Now leaflets should be flooding into the branches and if not – why not?
If we are seen to be out on the streets in strength it encourages membership and reassures and emboldens the 17,410,742 to become engaged in the fight for our country.
We must be seen!
Here’s a bright idea. Might the UKIP leadership (not just Gerard) call a member’s meeting to discuss the way forward in light of the current uncertainty of Brexit? They will have been studying the situation and it’s intricacies far more closely than many, many others in the Country – more closely probably than even the Government’s Brexit team. If our Country’s future is indeed in the balance then members will surely spare one day from their schedules to convene somewhere in central England to help hammer out a policy that will help ensure that the referendum result is fully respected: Out means Out.
OK
More words ..
TELL US WHAT TO DO. WE CAN AND WILL DO IT.
Start writing letters or emails to your MP!
Start writing letters (you can email them!) to your local paper and to national papers!
Start pestering your MEP – even and especially if they’re not Kipper MEPs.
Ask your Leave friends and Leave family to do the same.
…. for starters.
And: ask you branch chairman to organise Emergency Brexit days!
It’s going to take civil disobedience. They don’t care about your vote, they don’t care if you wave banners in the street. They care about your money; rather, they care if they can seperate it from you or not. I hope people get the gist.
It doesn’t need organising, it just needs a support network so that people don’t feel isolated when they start resisting. Noone needs to go to such lengths that they end up in court or jail; causing an inability to govern would be the objective – and that’s a matter of volume to a certain point of resistance rather than individual heroics that go all the way.
On another level – legal action disputing primacy of EU legislation, but I haven’t looked into that.
We need to make our voices heard. We must mobilise – meetings, demonstrations, banner-waving, shouting – let’s let the remainers know that we haven’t gone away and that we’re not going to go away.
Yes, I know; you look outside on a day like this and think a demo is not a good idea, but it takes time to organise such an event and by the time it’s set up the weather will be a lot nicer. If a few thousand of us gathered in Parliament Square, TPTB would not be able to ignore us, and those who are unable to get to London should organise co-ordinated get-togethers ON THE SAME DAY all over the country. Hundreds of people managed to get to the EGM and that was in just one place; if we pick a date and all turn out on that same date, we’d make our voices heard.
This is a call for leadership. The NEC/Gerard or whoever is running this party should lead us into this event. We’d be joined by the other organisations who have expressed an interest in working with us and the more who turn out, the more forcefully we’ll make our voices heard.
This is a time for all of us to pull together for the love of our country and our party.
Worse than Vichy France? I totally agree. Learn to live with it. UKIP’s comprehensive epitaph will read along the lines that it helped secure a referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union. RIP.
Debbie,
Has a march been organised yet for this month, we should all be marching in March now! I agree with you, I don’t know why Gerard is having a buffet lunch with a branch when he should be heading a demo anywhere, it does not matter where. I would much rather spend my money doing that, I don’t want to sit round a table anymore just talking to each other, it is not achieving anything whatsoever.
There is, of course, an additional benefit to such action – publicity. The meetings between Gerard and the branches will not be covered by the MSM; a demo would be.
Debbie, when I was still a UKIP member I asked Jane Collins via UKIP Daily why there was never any UKIP leaders or MEP’s on marches or making speeches at rallies.
You probably don’t recall, but I do, because I thought it mattered very much – I was told “UKIP don’t do marches”.
That may be beginning to change, but it’s now far too little, far too late.
Debbie Agree with all your other initiatives but not a march. The MSM will not cover a UKIP march. Why would they give the Leavers publicity? I wouldn’t if I was a Leaver publisher or broadcaster.
They are enormously difficult to organise, they raise the activists hopes and when they do not achieve their objective it dampens their enthusiasm for leafleting and doing the town square stalls. If you have a paltry turnout you score a home goal. Remember Nigel going to lead a march of thousands on Westminster? – he was soon advised against it.
From my experience it is best to engage directly with the public – do a leaflet drop with the ‘Out Now’ Ukip leaflets to every door in your constituency with Saturday mornings reserved for being seen in the town squares and busy roadsides with OUT NOW corex boards.
Debbie I fear the opportunity has passed for a massive march. I think all Brexiteers were up for it – had Nigel lead one to counter the Remain one almost straight after the vote. Whoever advised Nigel was wrong. I dare say Nigel’s ego had a bit to do with it, he would have wanted a sure thing – I think he maligned Brexiteers by believing they wouldn’t have gone to the end of the earth to support him just after Brexit.
But there was nothing to stop UKIP MEP’s or Leaders from accepting invitations to be Guest Speakers at rallies. Gerard might change that. But in the past i wonder if it was the horror of appearing alongside Tommy Robinson, Anne Marie and others that stopped them. A huge mistake.
There were demos last year near the so-called “Supreme Court”. UKIP was going to be involved but pulled out for fear of counter-demonstrations. I thought that was pathetic.
I went anyway. There were no counter-demonstrations.
Hugo and Dee.
I do agree that demonstrations can gain publicity but that wholly depends on the MSM who as we know will not afford us that luxury. Demonstrations may work best when their is broad public support for an issue such as protesting against hospital cuts and so forth.
Brexit is very divisive and thus I prefer to leaflet nationwide and be seen in town centres engaging with those who wish to talk and show their support.
Enoch Powell’s message was undermined through public appearances with bovver boys surrounding him and of course the MSM focussed on them not the message.
This resulted in his own party refusing to back him – cowards yes, but that’s politics for you.
Viv,
The title of you article says it all. Your last paragraph needs to be used as a rallying call for everyone in the party. If UKIP is destroyed and the referendum vote is ignored or overturned I believe we will have the biggest political crisis that we will have seen in our lifetimes.
Alec,
“If UKIP is destroyed and the referendum vote is ignored or overturned I believe we will have the biggest political crisis that we will have seen in our lifetimes….”
Firstly “if UKIP is destroyed”, as it almost was very recently, I am not sure there would have been much of a murmur.
The wider supporters would have probably shrugged and said it would have been better were Nigel Farage in charge.
Now if-when “the referendum vote is ignored or overturned” there is more likely to be a public reaction.
In our life time what stood out as a political crisis which engaged the public ?
The three day week and when there were rumours of a military coup in the UK. 1974
Red Robbo 1979 1980
The miners strike 1984 1985
The poll tax riots. 1989
[ I do not count the Greenham Common – CND – activities as amounting to anything ]
The miners strike seemed the biggest of these events.
I am not so sure there would be a public reaction even on the scale of the miners strike ( which failed).
It would take a national strike to get the government’s vague attention.
Demos are all well and fine, however they are not really a worry to the government.
Its just people waving hand made banners and getting bother from the police.
Penalty at voting booth, the next election ? Unlikely that there would be a mass switch away from the main parties.
Yes people will grumble but that’s about as far as it would go.
Great post Viv, that needs to go far and wide. Just one thing though, UKIPD articles are still WAY TOO LONG. Shorter, more punchy articles saying the same thing but in HALF the words have TWICE the impact.
If I replied here with 1000 words of guff, you wouldn’t read it, no one would read it, in fact you wouldn’t allow it, I bet this comment panel wouldn’t even have room for it. I bet you’re getting bored of reading this already!
GOOD NEWS THOUGH…The arrogant Guardian has suffered this affliction for years, huge long pompous articles like Fidel Castro speeches and they wonder why newspaper sales fell off a cliff. But if you write in, you’ll be told ‘keep it brief’ – priceless.
Russell,
I very rarely read long articles myself, I have not got the time and start to forget what they are talking about to be honest.
DD – that is a symptom of Social Media – or a cause perhaps – I think there is nothing better than the written word when there is something to say, and Viv usually put her finger on it, as she has today.
But we have (with the honorable exception, if I remember rightly, of Brenda Rattle) got used to sound bites, tweets and the rest. A deliberate ploy to shorten our attention spans? Possibly.
Thanks, Dee – but shortening the attention span is, IMHO, definitely a deliberate ploy, and it has very sinister connotations, as far as I’m concerned.
I hope you’re ok in this weather – the grassroots Conference for Sunday has been cancelled and we’ve had ice bits coming down for hours now.
Ah Dee, Thy taketh my name in vain! Nice to know you regard me as honourable though.
It is true that I am not on social media although I do read your tweets. Since I have this marvellous opportunity here, I will say that I do love and respect your attempts to help rehome dogs. My own Jack Russell Terrier is a rescue (currently sprawled on my husband’s armchair soaking up the warmth from the solid fuel stove).
Seriously though, I am not interested in social media with the exception of UkipDaily and Kipper Central. I do send and receive emails. However, I think there is nothing nicer than a handwritten letter – I use good quality writing paper and envelopes and, wait for it……I use a fountain pen. Just wish we still had carrier pigeons.
Kind regards.